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Feminism is nothing to do with equality.
Instead, it is movement to promote women's interests at the expense of men.
Despite claims by some moderate (and misled) feminists to the contrary, feminism is not a
movement for the betterment of men and women. If it was, it would be called humanism.
Feminists are not concerned, for example, about the fact that four times as many men
commit suicide as women, that one in ten American boys are being drugged with ritalin or
other medication or that far fewer boys attend college or graduate from high school than
girls.
Feminists demand that we treat men and women as exactly equal unless it suits women to
differentiate between the sexes.
For example, a typical feminist will see no irony in arguing on one hand that women need
ever greater protection from domestic violence, rape and sexual harassment (even if it
means destroying the lives of innocent men) but on the other hand that women are just as
good as men at fighting, construction, farming, police work, etc.
In short, feminism is the politics of convenience. And if you don't think feminist leaders are
misandrist, you are in denial. Here, in their own words, is how leading feminists see men:
"All men are rapists and that's all they are." Marilyn French, Author; (later, advisor to Al
Gore's Presidential Campaign.)
"Men who are unjustly accused of rape can sometimes gain from the experience."
Catherine Comin, Vassar College. Assistant Dean of Students.
"I feel that 'man-hating' is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a
right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them." Robin Morgan, Ms.
Magazine Editor.
"I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man
structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable
of it." Former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan.
"If the classroom situation is very heteropatriarchal--a large beginning class of 50 to 60
students, say, with few feminist students--I am likely to define my task as largely one of
recruitment...of persuading students that women are oppressed," said Professor Joyce
Trebilcot of Washington University, as quoted in Who Stole Feminism: How Women Have
Betrayed Women.
"And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual
(male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference." Susan Griffin, Rape: The All-American
Crime.
"(Rape) is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men
keep all women in a state of fear".
Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will p.6.
"We are taught, encouraged, moulded by and lulled into accepting a range of false notions
about the family. As a source of some of our most profound experiences, it continues to be
such an integral part of our emotional lives that it appears beyond criticism. Yet hiding from
the truth of family life leaves women and children vulnerable." Canadian Panel on Violence
Against Women.
"All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated
against a woman." Catherine McKinnon (respected legal scholar; University of Michigan,
& Yale; inventor of the "sexual harassment" paradigm)
"The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness...can be trained to do most
things." Jilly Cooper, SCUM (Society For Cutting Up Men.)
"When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal
system, eroticizing her own oppression..." Sheila Jeffrys.
"The traditional flowers of courtship are the traditional flowers of the grave, delivered to the
victim before the kill. The cadaver is dressed up and made up and laid down and ritually
violated and consecrated to an eternity of being used." Andrea Dworkin
'To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo." Scum
Manifesto. (Valerie Solanas)
"There are no boundaries between affectionate sex and slavery in (the male) world.
Distinctions between pleasure and danger are academic; the dirty-laundrylist of 'sex
acts'...includes rape, foot binding, fellatio, intercourse, auto eroticism, incest, anal
intercourse, use and production of pornography, cunnilingus, sexual harassment, and
murder." J. Levine; summarizing comment on the WAS document, (A southern Women's
Writing Collective: Women Against Sex.)
"I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an
apple in the mouth of a pig." Andrea Dworkin; from her book Ice and Fire .
"I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted
as the stability of family life may well depend on the sexual slavery of our children. What's
more, this is a cynical arrangement our institutions have colluded to conceal." Journalist
Sylvia Fraser
"Sexism is NOT the fault of women--kill your fathers, not your mothers". Robin
Instead, it is movement to promote women's interests at the expense of men.
Despite claims by some moderate (and misled) feminists to the contrary, feminism is not a
movement for the betterment of men and women. If it was, it would be called humanism.
Feminists are not concerned, for example, about the fact that four times as many men
commit suicide as women, that one in ten American boys are being drugged with ritalin or
other medication or that far fewer boys attend college or graduate from high school than
girls.
Feminists demand that we treat men and women as exactly equal unless it suits women to
differentiate between the sexes.
For example, a typical feminist will see no irony in arguing on one hand that women need
ever greater protection from domestic violence, rape and sexual harassment (even if it
means destroying the lives of innocent men) but on the other hand that women are just as
good as men at fighting, construction, farming, police work, etc.
In short, feminism is the politics of convenience. And if you don't think feminist leaders are
misandrist, you are in denial. Here, in their own words, is how leading feminists see men:
"All men are rapists and that's all they are." Marilyn French, Author; (later, advisor to Al
Gore's Presidential Campaign.)
"Men who are unjustly accused of rape can sometimes gain from the experience."
Catherine Comin, Vassar College. Assistant Dean of Students.
"I feel that 'man-hating' is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a
right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them." Robin Morgan, Ms.
Magazine Editor.
"I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man
structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable
of it." Former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan.
"If the classroom situation is very heteropatriarchal--a large beginning class of 50 to 60
students, say, with few feminist students--I am likely to define my task as largely one of
recruitment...of persuading students that women are oppressed," said Professor Joyce
Trebilcot of Washington University, as quoted in Who Stole Feminism: How Women Have
Betrayed Women.
"And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual
(male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference." Susan Griffin, Rape: The All-American
Crime.
"(Rape) is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men
keep all women in a state of fear".
Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will p.6.
"We are taught, encouraged, moulded by and lulled into accepting a range of false notions
about the family. As a source of some of our most profound experiences, it continues to be
such an integral part of our emotional lives that it appears beyond criticism. Yet hiding from
the truth of family life leaves women and children vulnerable." Canadian Panel on Violence
Against Women.
"All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated
against a woman." Catherine McKinnon (respected legal scholar; University of Michigan,
& Yale; inventor of the "sexual harassment" paradigm)
"The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness...can be trained to do most
things." Jilly Cooper, SCUM (Society For Cutting Up Men.)
"When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal
system, eroticizing her own oppression..." Sheila Jeffrys.
"The traditional flowers of courtship are the traditional flowers of the grave, delivered to the
victim before the kill. The cadaver is dressed up and made up and laid down and ritually
violated and consecrated to an eternity of being used." Andrea Dworkin
'To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo." Scum
Manifesto. (Valerie Solanas)
"There are no boundaries between affectionate sex and slavery in (the male) world.
Distinctions between pleasure and danger are academic; the dirty-laundrylist of 'sex
acts'...includes rape, foot binding, fellatio, intercourse, auto eroticism, incest, anal
intercourse, use and production of pornography, cunnilingus, sexual harassment, and
murder." J. Levine; summarizing comment on the WAS document, (A southern Women's
Writing Collective: Women Against Sex.)
"I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an
apple in the mouth of a pig." Andrea Dworkin; from her book Ice and Fire .
"I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted
as the stability of family life may well depend on the sexual slavery of our children. What's
more, this is a cynical arrangement our institutions have colluded to conceal." Journalist
Sylvia Fraser
"Sexism is NOT the fault of women--kill your fathers, not your mothers". Robin
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Systemics Archive:
What is Feminism?
People who confuses feminism with egalitarianism have missed the conspiracy of
feminism. I will clarify why feminism does not liberate women by distinguishing feminism
from egalitarianism.
1. Feminism is not egalitarianism
In US, the enlistee system took the place of conscription in 1973, and many women
volunteered for military service. Feminists argued whether it was desirable for women to
take part in battle. Some feminists approved of women being equal to men in the military
occupation. Others objected to it, because war is against the female nature.
Such a disagreement came from confusing feminism with egalitarianism. Egalitarianism
is the formal ideal that all persons should be treated equally regardless of ascription
including sex and does not commit itself to the substantial value, such as justification of
wars, while feminism is the ideology of womanliness.
Feminism is often regarded as egalitarianism that tries to make a society gender-free.
But the name of feminism itself is not gender-free. The ideal of minimizing the gender
difference should be called not feminism but egalitarianism.
2. The radical feminism
Although the women's liberation movement from the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s aimed
at mere gender equality, women got to notice just trying to be the same as men
presupposed the predominance of the masculine value over the feminine. Here comes
the radical feminism that emphasizes the gender difference and insists on the
predominance of the feminine values over the masculine. This indicates feminism has
sought the identity of women rather than the genderless rights.
A result of such radical feminism is the ecofeminism in concert with the environmental
movement prospered in the 70s. The ecofeminism compares the exploitation of
resources and destruction of nature by the modern capitalism to the rape by the male,
and insists on protecting the earth by the motherhood. Ecofeminists identifies
female/male with tenderness/bravery, nature/civilization, cooperation/competition,
peace/war, and feeling/reason and accuse masculinity as the logic of power politics.
Ecofeminism is not the symmetrical counterpart of the traditional male-oriented sexism.
The latter opposes women getting manly, while the former desires that the male also
should get womanly. Sexism is mere egoism, but feminism is a philosophy.
Another branch of radical feminism is Marxist feminism, which compares the male/female
relation to that of the other exploitation, such as bourgeois/proletarian,
developed/developing countries and so on. That's why Marxist feminists have a sense of
solidarity toward the male proletarian or the male in the third world.
In order to explain the difference between sexists and feminists, I must explain the
difference between sex and gender. An individual's self-conception as being male or
female is sometimes different from actual biological sex. For most persons, gender
identity and biological characteristics are the same. There are, however, circumstances
in which an individual experiences little or no connection between sex and gender, in
transsexualism, for example. Feminism is gender-conscious but not always sex
conscious.
Of course, gender cannot be utterly different from sex. If women who prefer competition
like Margaret Thatcher increases, you will not be able to say the competitive society is
based on the masculine values.
3. The trap of radical feminism
The biggest problem of the gender-conscious feminism consists in that it confines
women to womanliness and thus deprives them of freedom of choice. We had no
freedom to choose sex before birth and, as the technology for a sex change is
insufficient, have little freedom to change sex.
Feminists or masculinists as gender maximizers are obstructive to transgenders whose
gender is opposed to their sex. It is because their surroundings are gender-conscious
that the transgenders want to cut off their breasts or penises.
The so-called Orientalism has the same problem as feminism. Recently the Western
philosophers have reconsidered their ethnocentrism and taken interest in the Eastern
philosophy. Though I live in Asia, I am not glad at this Orientalism, because I do not want
to confine myself to the Eastern philosophy. I heard a Japanese scholar, who had been
studying Kant and went to Germany, tried to deliver a lecture on Kant, but as no German
were likely to listen to it, decided to talk about Zen and succeeded in gathering audience.
Female philosophers are also likely to attract public attention, when they profess
themselves to be feminists.
The species, "Japanese" or "woman", are not those of their own choice. When the
property of species differs from that of an individual belonging to the species, the
individual feels alienated, even if the property of the species is praised.
Let's go back to ecofeminism. For the African that yearn for rich town life in advanced
countries, the discourse of European ecofeminists, who admire the rich nature of Africa,
seems hypocritical. A man who admires feminism and does not want woman to be manly
is like the city-dweller in advanced countries who admires the rich nature of poor
countries and does not want developing countries to be developed, though the natives
long for a city life. Ecofeminism is a shrewd trick to preserve good old womanliness and
virgin nature by making the poor and women have proud self-identity.
4. Feminism does not liberate women
The black once tried to reverse the racist values by comparing the white to cold ice and
the black to warm sun. Such an affirmative action is not radical at all. The most important
and radical revolution is not to reverse the racist values but to abandon the racism itself.
Similarly, radical feminism is not radical at all. We must abandon the gender-conscious
question itself: Which is superior, masculinity or femininity? I believe the 21-century will
not be the age of women but the age of individuals.
What is Feminism?
People who confuses feminism with egalitarianism have missed the conspiracy of
feminism. I will clarify why feminism does not liberate women by distinguishing feminism
from egalitarianism.
1. Feminism is not egalitarianism
In US, the enlistee system took the place of conscription in 1973, and many women
volunteered for military service. Feminists argued whether it was desirable for women to
take part in battle. Some feminists approved of women being equal to men in the military
occupation. Others objected to it, because war is against the female nature.
Such a disagreement came from confusing feminism with egalitarianism. Egalitarianism
is the formal ideal that all persons should be treated equally regardless of ascription
including sex and does not commit itself to the substantial value, such as justification of
wars, while feminism is the ideology of womanliness.
Feminism is often regarded as egalitarianism that tries to make a society gender-free.
But the name of feminism itself is not gender-free. The ideal of minimizing the gender
difference should be called not feminism but egalitarianism.
2. The radical feminism
Although the women's liberation movement from the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s aimed
at mere gender equality, women got to notice just trying to be the same as men
presupposed the predominance of the masculine value over the feminine. Here comes
the radical feminism that emphasizes the gender difference and insists on the
predominance of the feminine values over the masculine. This indicates feminism has
sought the identity of women rather than the genderless rights.
A result of such radical feminism is the ecofeminism in concert with the environmental
movement prospered in the 70s. The ecofeminism compares the exploitation of
resources and destruction of nature by the modern capitalism to the rape by the male,
and insists on protecting the earth by the motherhood. Ecofeminists identifies
female/male with tenderness/bravery, nature/civilization, cooperation/competition,
peace/war, and feeling/reason and accuse masculinity as the logic of power politics.
Ecofeminism is not the symmetrical counterpart of the traditional male-oriented sexism.
The latter opposes women getting manly, while the former desires that the male also
should get womanly. Sexism is mere egoism, but feminism is a philosophy.
Another branch of radical feminism is Marxist feminism, which compares the male/female
relation to that of the other exploitation, such as bourgeois/proletarian,
developed/developing countries and so on. That's why Marxist feminists have a sense of
solidarity toward the male proletarian or the male in the third world.
In order to explain the difference between sexists and feminists, I must explain the
difference between sex and gender. An individual's self-conception as being male or
female is sometimes different from actual biological sex. For most persons, gender
identity and biological characteristics are the same. There are, however, circumstances
in which an individual experiences little or no connection between sex and gender, in
transsexualism, for example. Feminism is gender-conscious but not always sex
conscious.
Of course, gender cannot be utterly different from sex. If women who prefer competition
like Margaret Thatcher increases, you will not be able to say the competitive society is
based on the masculine values.
3. The trap of radical feminism
The biggest problem of the gender-conscious feminism consists in that it confines
women to womanliness and thus deprives them of freedom of choice. We had no
freedom to choose sex before birth and, as the technology for a sex change is
insufficient, have little freedom to change sex.
Feminists or masculinists as gender maximizers are obstructive to transgenders whose
gender is opposed to their sex. It is because their surroundings are gender-conscious
that the transgenders want to cut off their breasts or penises.
The so-called Orientalism has the same problem as feminism. Recently the Western
philosophers have reconsidered their ethnocentrism and taken interest in the Eastern
philosophy. Though I live in Asia, I am not glad at this Orientalism, because I do not want
to confine myself to the Eastern philosophy. I heard a Japanese scholar, who had been
studying Kant and went to Germany, tried to deliver a lecture on Kant, but as no German
were likely to listen to it, decided to talk about Zen and succeeded in gathering audience.
Female philosophers are also likely to attract public attention, when they profess
themselves to be feminists.
The species, "Japanese" or "woman", are not those of their own choice. When the
property of species differs from that of an individual belonging to the species, the
individual feels alienated, even if the property of the species is praised.
Let's go back to ecofeminism. For the African that yearn for rich town life in advanced
countries, the discourse of European ecofeminists, who admire the rich nature of Africa,
seems hypocritical. A man who admires feminism and does not want woman to be manly
is like the city-dweller in advanced countries who admires the rich nature of poor
countries and does not want developing countries to be developed, though the natives
long for a city life. Ecofeminism is a shrewd trick to preserve good old womanliness and
virgin nature by making the poor and women have proud self-identity.
4. Feminism does not liberate women
The black once tried to reverse the racist values by comparing the white to cold ice and
the black to warm sun. Such an affirmative action is not radical at all. The most important
and radical revolution is not to reverse the racist values but to abandon the racism itself.
Similarly, radical feminism is not radical at all. We must abandon the gender-conscious
question itself: Which is superior, masculinity or femininity? I believe the 21-century will
not be the age of women but the age of individuals.
| SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto by Valerie Solanas |
| Feminism for equality!!!!! |
1. Feminism Deconstructed
2. SCUM Manifesto
3. A rationalist alternative to feminist theory
4. Confront Matriarchy
5. False Premises, false Promises
6. Feminism in the context of US history
7 .How it Happened
8. Fixing Men
9. The lies of Feminism
10. The lies of Feminism, Domestic violence
11. Feminine Evil
12. Presenting Feminism! A Coming Out
13. They knew what they were doing
14. Destructive Entitlement
15. The Ultimate Hypocrisy
16. Double standards for men
17. Double standards for men II
18. The Ignorance of Feminism
19. The Hate Mongers
20. Man Hating and Man Bashing
21. How the women‘s movement taught
women to hate
22. The 90s were make or break
23. The Personal is Political
24. Working with Violent Women
25. Feminism led to Masculine Rage
26. Social Decay
27. Why I feel sorry for Women
2. SCUM Manifesto
3. A rationalist alternative to feminist theory
4. Confront Matriarchy
5. False Premises, false Promises
6. Feminism in the context of US history
7 .How it Happened
8. Fixing Men
9. The lies of Feminism
10. The lies of Feminism, Domestic violence
11. Feminine Evil
12. Presenting Feminism! A Coming Out
13. They knew what they were doing
14. Destructive Entitlement
15. The Ultimate Hypocrisy
16. Double standards for men
17. Double standards for men II
18. The Ignorance of Feminism
19. The Hate Mongers
20. Man Hating and Man Bashing
21. How the women‘s movement taught
women to hate
22. The 90s were make or break
23. The Personal is Political
24. Working with Violent Women
25. Feminism led to Masculine Rage
26. Social Decay
27. Why I feel sorry for Women